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WP Headmaster

by bavington · SEO

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A simple plugin for adding, enqueuing and organising common items into the Head tag without hard-coding.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 64 average across 1,222 SEO plugins

200+

Active installs

≈290 estimated

5.6K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.17★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 4 reviews

+13%

76

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4575 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+13% vs prior 30d
-3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

76

now · peak 149

8730d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

WP Headmaster · #12828 you Responsive Image Map · #3658 Yoast SEO · #2 LiteSpeed Cache · #5

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

435per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈290

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-22 · 1,385 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 4 reviews

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5★
4 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.3
Last updated
12.5y ago
Added
2013-06-13 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ televizor
    12.3y ago

    Keep up the good work!

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  2. ★★★★★ josemf
    12.3y ago

    This is very useful, simple enough but gets to the point. If your theme depends on mediaqueries (ex, based on twitter bootstrap) you should use this plugin if you want the site to look nice on IE8 browser.

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  3. ★★★★★ robertkent
    13.1y ago

    This is great for those who wish to keep all their various head-includes in one easy to edit place. Uploading the favicon is quick and easy.

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  4. ★★★★★ danlong
    13.2y ago

    Definitely worth the install. Really easy to use interface packed full of features. A must have plugin for web masters!

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 6.1 WP Headmaster <= 0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2025-01-14 CVE-2025-22755 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 0.3 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2024-11-15 300+ → 200+ down after 431 days in tier
  2. 2023-09-11 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-09-10 300+ → 400+ up after 7 days in tier
  4. 2023-09-03 400+ → 300+ down

Competes with

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